“It’s still too easy to make gender equality merely an ‘add on’ to [aid] programs,” says CARE Australia CEO Dr Julia Newton-Howes. Here, she outlines three approaches that have enabled change in some of the world’s poorest communities. The majority of the world’s poorest people are female. They are more likely than their brothers to miss school to help with household chores, more likely to suffer neglect and poor nutrition in childhood, more at risk of violence and sexual abuse. They are less likely to own, control or inherit assets and face many other hurdles unique to their gender.  These arise because most societies value boys more than girls and…